Meiji Restoration

Misa Leeflang Research Notes National History Day Perry’s Expedition’s Effects on Japan ___ Thesis Perry’s Expedition’s Effects on Japan In 1853 and 1854, the encounter of Commodore Matthew Perry’s expedition to Japan forcefully opened the once isolated country to trade and diplomatic relations with western nations, rapidly modernizing Japan with the exchange of western ideas and technology. ___ Notes Introduction: Perry’s Expedition and its goals Commodore Matthew Calbraith Perry landed in…

Shortly after the Meiji restoration both the number of Noh performers and Noh stages greatly diminished. The support from the imperial government was eventually regained partly due to Noh's appeal to foreign diplomats. The companies that remained active throughout the Meiji era also significantly broadened Noh's reach by catering to the general public, performing at theatres in major cities such…

To a long extent I agree to the statement that commodore Perry opened Japan, because Perry arrived to Japan and demanded to trade. Perry negotiations and demand for trade made Japan to think about their actions and whether to open Japan. The purpose of this essay is to discuss whether Perry opened Japan or not. Commodore Matthew Perry arrived in Japan on July 8th, 1853 at the Tokyo harbour. On the behalf of the US government, Perry forced Japan to trade with the United States. The united state…

The Second Sino-Japanese War, 1937-1945, is widely considered to begin with the Marco Polo Bridge incident of July 1937 and end with the Japanese surrender in September 1945. I would argue that to understand the motives as to why Japan invaded China, it is essential to grasp their previous history of conflicts and tensions, beginning with the Japanese claim of Taiwan from China’s Qing Dynasty after the First Sino-Japanese war in 1895, right through to the invasion of Manchuria in 1931. This…

JJapanese Prime Minister Junichi Koizumi brought relations between China and Japan to a standstill with his annual visits to Yasukuni Shrine. Koizumi’s campaign pledge to visit Yasukuni on the 15th of August 2001 was intended to garner political support from prominent Japanese rightists, had the added effect of internationalising the issue. Within China and Korea, Yasukuni is considered to be a symbol of Japanese imperialism and expansionist militarism. Further, the enshrinement of Japan's 14…

Set in the early Meiji period, a time of transition from a feudal system, the Tokugawa Bakufu, to a modern westernized Japan, the first tension that is sensible is the one between modernity and tradition. Throughout the narrative themes of corruption and exploitation evoke…

by most Japanese as unequal. The treaties permitted legal extraterritoriality to foreigners in Japan and compel the Japanese government to accept tariff rates provided by them. After the downfall of the Tokugawa Shogunate and the rise of the Meiji Restoration, the Japanese government was keen in getting more impartial deals with the Western powers. Japanese statesman such as Iwakura Tomomi demanded the revision of the treaty due to its violation towards the freedom of Japan (Iriye, 1989).…

They both had prior experience of imitation. Japan had copied from China and Russia from Byzantium and the Mongols. They knew that learning from the West could be profitable and wouldn’t destroy their native cultures. In Japan, the Emperor Meiji sent out samurai to parts of the West to pick up ideas. Western style clothing such as ties, pants, and loafers replaced traditional samurai outfitting. Western hygiene including toothbrushes, vaccines and patent medicines were introduced and…

Tokugawa started to lose pace with the national economy. The peasants start to rise as the more powerful people. In the end, people started to demand for restoration of imperial rule so they can fix some prevailing problems and leap into the pace of national economy. Finally, Meiji emperor decides to restore power in Japan. This caused the peasants to stop rising and the prevailing problems to be solved. However, this also caused the economic growth and making the…

Since its society was created in 10,000 BC, Japan has been an unrelenting force of modernization. The country formed around 400 AD by building a centralized state under one imperial dynasty and borrowing law codes and other institutions from China. After setbacks due to the rise of the samurai class, which broke the country into competing factions, the arrival of Europeans prompted Xenophobia across the nation. In the early 17th century, the Japanese actively protested and discriminated against…